Diverse soil microbial communities may help suppress pathogens naturally, acting as a biological barrier against their ...

The soil beneath our feet is a huge carbon bank storing up to approximately three times more carbon than the entire ...

Forest soils are immense reservoirs of carbon, playing a critical role in regulating the global climate. The specific sources ...

A new long-term field study reveals that biochar, a carbon-rich material derived from biomass, can significantly enhance soil ...

Researchers from the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney investigated the vast and largely hidden world beneath our feet. Soil is where 59% of all life on Earth resides. A ...

The unique blend of fungi and bacteria in a region’s soil may be the strongest factor explaining its rates of childhood allergic disease, with certain assemblages of soil critters appearing linked ...

Portland State University scientists are developing a soil treatment, using microbes, to combat soil liquefaction.

Soil dryness from drought can increase the amount of natural antibiotics and promote the growth of antibiotic-resistant ...

In recent years, organic farming has come to occupy a powerful moral position in public discourse.